batch file help - extraction

[marceta]

Hello everyone. I would like to make a batch file that extracts the contents of MANY .zip files (001-146) to a certain folder, without having to manually extract them. My .bat skills are not good enough to do it and it would be a usuful tool that i currently need. Can someone please post the batch code that will do this.

many thanks in advance.

[kc0arf]

Hello,

The older DOS PKUNZIP might work for you. I wonder if WinZip has something like that available too.

I wonder if you could instead of getting a bunch of .ZIP files, if your source could send you ONE zip file with everything inside it.

You cannot just go PKUNZIP *.ZIP as your files would be placed in the working folder and be mingling with your .ZIP files too. That would be bad.

Good luck on this one.

[marceta]

thx for tryin, winzip cant do it and i am NOT prepared to do it myself:@ does anyone know how to do it?

[Puckdropper]

Can you extract them from the command line how you want? If not, the rest of the post won't be very useful.

To get a file listing of all the zip files in a directory, use:

dir *.zip /b > names.txt

your batch file may go something like this (stick with me, I'm used to Linux)
Oh, and one more note: I use binary numbers for temporary directory names just so I can practice binary.

mkdir 00000000
cd 00000000
unzip ../filename.zip
cd ..

mkdir 00000001
cd 00000001
unzip ../filename2.zip
cd ..

and so on...

[marceta]

cool man, thx. Ive got the list of files, now, i cant the extract to work. i have

"unzip /.zip

but no good. is it something to do with those numbers (i dont really get them)

[Catweazle]

Hey marceta. Have you considered that some of those zip archives might contain files with the same filename? Extracting all the archives into the one directory as a 'batch' operation might not be the wisest thing to do. You might just end up with some files lost from the exercise ;)

[marceta]

well it took about 30mins, but i did it all by hand, i guess i should feel proud, but i dont :P

[Puckdropper]

Go and celebrate by having a nice cold can of root beer. I find Barqs is best Ice Cold. ;-)

[JR85023]

WINRAR Can do batches.